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December 23, 2011

Filling In Christmas Blanks

1. The best way to spread Christmas cheer is with lots and lots of delicious food!

2. The thing I love most about Christmas is coming home and relaxing with my family without having to worry about what's on my To Do list .

3. The holiday season is a time for not worrying about the scale .

4. My favorite thing to eat at the holidays is all the things. But especially oysters, fois gras, and champagne (my mother does Christmas French-style), lots of cheese, and the Mont Blanc - a traditional meringue and marrons glace` dessert - that I make every year .

5. I will be spending Christmas Eve with my mother, throwing our yearly Christmas Eve dinner party, and Christmas Day with my father, opening presents and having Christmas brunch .

6. Tis better to (give or receive?) usually I'd say to give - I love shopping for presents and finding the perfect gift - but this year I'll say neither. My brother is in Italy with my dad's family, and I'm spending a low key Christmas with my parents that is no so much about gifts this year (we'll do most of the exchanging when my brother gets back from Europe) as it is about just being thankful for the time I have to spend at home .

7. I'm dreaming of a not rainy Christmas. I won't go so far as to hope for snow (it's been in the 50s the last few days, so I don't see it happening) but I really hope it doesn't rain.

1 comment:

I love what you said about not worrying about a to-do list. I do love that when the holidays are here, for that day (at least) it's all about living in the moment & nothing else matters. If every day could be a holiday! Hope you enjoy your low-key Christmas and have a good time celebrating again when your brother returns!

Yours Truly

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I love telling stories and I hope I never run out of stories to tell.
I suffer from self-diagnosed geographic claustrophobia (in layman's terms, wanderlust), and I may be addicted to pens and moleskines; I'm looking into it. I love lonely, rainy afternoons with a great book and a cup of Earl Grey, sleeping in, and cooking up a feast in spacious, well-equipped kitchens. I hate purple, Uggs, and people who walk really slowly in front of me on the sidewalk. I can be opinionated and very stubborn, but I'm generally quite flexible. Especially if you ask nicely. I also like lemons a lot, and most things vintage. When I find a typo in a book it makes me a bit giddy. I think boredom is for boring people. I like non sequiturs. And brunch.
When I lived in Rome I had a Vespa. I miss it terribly.
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In the words of a wise man by the name of Wilde, life is too important to be taken seriously.